Neil armstrong what is he doing now

We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. News World News Patrick Knox. The moment was 50 years old on July 20 The astronauts were booked in under false names, and when the hotel staff asked what the interview was about I said it was to do with golf.

This seemed plausible given the astronauts' attire. I reminded Neil Armstrong that we had met long ago. To my surprise, he gave me that same warm reassuring smile and said he did remember and spoke fondly of that day.

We made small talk over a sandwich and chatted about his tour. But he declined a request for another interview, saying that he did not wish to take the limelight away from his fellow astronauts. This view of him is now emerging from the documentary film, Armstrong, which was released on Friday to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.

We showed them highlights of Nasa footage of the mission to get them into the mood. Watching her grandfather walk to the launch pad, Kali was struck by the resemblance of year-old Armstrong with her youthful year-old father. And they both smiled, unable to contain their glee of what they so obviously felt to be their great good fortune.

And even though it was a story Mark and Kali knew so well, they were gripped. Dad and daughter watched in awe as Neil stepped off the lunar module and uttered the words that would forever resonate through history: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Mark told me that the impression of his dad as a recluse were wrong. He'd sometimes walk down the hall and open up with a song from Oklahoma! He was more a professor type who would show you different options and urge you to think carefully about your choices and pick the right one, just as he did by example throughout his life. For Kali, Neil was simply "grandpa" who didn't talk about his Moon landing very much.

But he did once tell her that the greatest impact the mission had on him was seeing the Earth rise from the lunar surface. I also caught up with Neil's eldest son, Rick, while he was visiting the UK to take part in Moon landing celebrations. Now a software engineer, he loves being his father's son but admitted that at times his legend was sometimes hard to live up to.

I think of the Apollo programme where you had a team of thousands of people committed to a goal. But following the 50th anniversary of Armstrong's famous first steps on the moon, the circumstances surrounding his passing have come to light. The Times' report not only makes the settlement public but confirms that Armstrong's family was paid as a part of a wrongful-death-and-survivor claim.

Since Armstrong's death, his sons have asserted that health care professionals' incompetence after the astronaut's coronary bypass surgery at this hospital led to his death. The Times' report cites an expert at the hospital who took serious issue with the treatment Armstrong received. While Carol Armstrong, his second wife, described her husband as "amazingly resilient" following his surgery, severe complications quickly followed.

When nurses tried to remove the wires for Armstrong's temporary pacemaker, he began to bleed internally, and his blood pressure plummeted, according to the Times.

Further complications followed until, on Aug. Armstrong was buried at sea a couple of weeks later, on Sept. According to the Times, the secret settlement was sparked by a scathing email that Wendy Armstrong, who is both a lawyer and the wife of Neil Armstrong's son Mark, sent to the hospital's legal team.